A reader suggested I check this guy out and I did. The name seemed so familiar. Upon going in and listening to a bunch of tracks, I realized I actually had heard him a while back, liked what I heard but totally never followed up on it. Turns out he had/has a record dropping on Stones Throw. Score another one for minimal promotion and poor word of mouth. I feel your pain, bro.
Anyway, Jon Wayne is another in a long line of good fat white rappers. I don’t know what it is about fat white guys (or gingers) but they seem to have a better success rate than your average skinny white guy. It’s probably a matter of there being SO many normal looking skinny white rappers that when a fat one or a ginger one pops up, they stand out.
He’s from L.a., makes his own beats (which are also really good and interesting) and has much more music out than I have listened to. But , just from snooping around his catalogue, I can tell he’s no novice at this. He strangely sounds kinda like Large professor…but maybe that’s just me. Whatever the case, peep some of his stuff and lemme know what you think:
Definitely awesome. Been a fan of his for a while. The Oodles of Doodles album is amazing. Love his video game sampling, brings back a lot of childhood memories. Oh, and dude can spit too. This one from the Quakers album in particular is dope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EhoaHo-sM.
Meh
Comein’ outta his Momma’s basement with that good shit! 🙂
As a skinny, white, normal-looking, non-ginger, I’m going to go out and buy some hair dye and eat a lot.
Reach for the stars!
You’re right! I should put stigmatic burns in my palms and walk around with a thorn crown. That’ll make me stand out. There aren’t any other rappers with a martyr complex!
Oh… shit…
I loved the beat and Jonwayne is a remarkable MC you wanna hear more. If you say he’s making his own beat, I took my hat off also. The proccess of trying new things is really tiring and when you are into these kind of refreshing works, you feel you are alive. Really sounds like Large Professor and I don’t complain about it as a Large Pro fan 🙂 Thanks for intruducing him. Now I’m another follower of his works.
BTW, I hope you didn’t hear this but here’s the possible track for your next yay/nay episode. I don’t know anthing about these guys but you gonna like it.
Other than the beatboxing stuff, this sounded really generic to me. Especially the lyrics.
….and does his own cover art apparently too!
I love his cassette tape albums. Jonwayne is real, too bad he’s in with a label that doesn’t do shit to promote you if your name isn’t madlib.
This guy is dope!
j wayniac is a beast, hate that cassette hipster bullshit tho.
he looks like he knows how to fix a computer. beats are decent rhymes are decent, 3rd songs the best.
that last joint over the phat kat beat made me believe.
He is absolutely dope. Can’t wait for the new album to drop